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Mom and I made a trip from south Missouri to north Missouri-more than 6 hours of driving for me. We delivered the 500 lbs of fescue grass seed we will be sowing once the water ways are completed. We, along with my brother, burned a brush pile and began tearing out some fencing that is not needed. We talked with an adjoining neighbor about the abandoned rail road right of way that I have written about elsewhere. I think the highlight for mom was to get to see the recently purchased (2014-100 hp) Kubota tractor. Mom even got to drive it. Not too bad when you consider this 89 years old woman was in the hospital and nursing home rehab three months a little over a year ago following a botched biopsy.

National Pig Day, celebrated annually on March 1, is the perfect time to celebrate how much pigs have become part of American culture. We see pigs in art, costumes, stuffed animals, collectables, piggy banks, movies, books and, of course, on the dinner table. Pigs have lived throughout the country on farms and in zoos for many years and even in our homes as pets! It’s only fitting to have a day dedicated to this easily recognizable, endearing creature and learn more about how they are part of our culture and history. As with dogs and cats, potbellied pigs have made great pets and there are over 1 million of them throughout the US and Canada today. For most people, the most frequent interaction with pigs is indeed at the dinner table. Pork is the most popular meat worldwide with over 80 million tons produced each year making up 40% of all meat consumption. We would be remiss to not mention our appreciation for all things pork as we celebrate National Pig Day. People begin using the Chinese zodiac as a predictor of the future, dividing into repeating cycles of 12 years with each year represented by an animal, the pig joined the manager about 200 BC. Spanish explorer, Hernando DeSoto, “father of the American pork industry”, first introduces domesticated pigs to the U.S. in 1539, bringing 15 to Tampa Bay, Florida. Porky Pig debuted on the big screen in 1935 and is the longest standing Looney Tunes character of all time. In 2021 a New Guinness World Record was set by 23 year old, Baby Jane, the oldest pig in captivity ever.

Went to an auction today and saved a ton of abandoned horse parts that would have gone to scrap. I need only about 2% of these and all the rest is for sale. Anyone want all f it make an offer.

Put a electric lift on my 1056. I only use this tractor for plowing so no idea if it would clear with a deck. Made a bracket that bolts to the frame/transaxle and the other end bolts right to the lower part of the rockshaft. Wired it up and it works great! its a bit slower than I would like says its 14mm/sec but still a reasonable speed. The cylinder can lift 265lbs and has no problem lifting my 48'' blade.

Hard to believe a week ago the temps were below freezing. Highs in the 50s this week thawed the ground enough to start plowing today.

It has a hole in the side of the block the size of a softball, but for $40 it's worth finding another engine. I belive it's a 74 model and I'm definitely going to save it.

Well the transmission is all buttoned up. Bench ran it by hand. Shifts smoothly between all the gears. All new seals survived assembly. I taped the keyways on all of them. Also you can see how the spacers will work. They won't touch anything unless the axle bearing tries to slip again. I don't think it will, but I also don't want to have to worry about it.

Sorry for the delay guys. Caught that nasty flu and am still feeling like junk, but finally got out side to do some splitting! I ended up not skidding any logs today and just bucked in place then split, but the Horse was able to easily transport my splits uphill across the property to season! Was a good day, I love this tractor!

Otis (right) and Milo (left) approve. (Otis and Milo were 100% bribed for their participation in this picture).

She was wound up like an 8 day clock. Erma is in assisted living--which we all agree has helped her health-3 meals a day, medicines are closely monitored, 24 hour nurses if needed plus interaction with other inn-mates (as folks in nursing homes were called 75 years ago). But a trip to the farm is always a welcome diversion for mom. She reminisced about how she and dad were embarrassed to tell folks how much they paid for the farm in 1963. How dad was stuck in a snow storm trying to get home from work in the city and she was alone and up all night assisting sheep giving birth because we three boys were too young to help. We rode around inspecting the fields and work we are having done (restoration of cropland that has been encroached upon by brush) as well as keeping an eye how well the water ways are protecting the dirt from washing. Mom isn't new to operating farm machinery. Mom and dad each had their own tractor--tractors that had cabs--something that was lacking when we boys were inn-mates on the farm.

Got the DNA results today. Faith is 100% American Foxhound!

Just turn on the wipers and squirt some washer fluid... clear off in no time!!!

Today I started working on my 414. Raided the heating oil, then drained, flushed, & filled the transmission. Water & froth in it was responsible for that look, not metal. I replaced the blown headlight & it's working twin with LEDs. They are BRIGHT! (Sorry for the messy shop.) Ordered an NGK plug to replace the Champion. Bought oil to change it. Much more to do, this is just a start. Tomorrow, after picking up a '73 frame, disassemble & clean carb.

Mike if you need somebody to "babysit" that C160 feel free to drop it off here. Rumor has it I have too many already but I dunno.

A progress report and some thoughts. Again this is for my own memory. As always.. comments, questions, suggestions, thoughts etc are welcome and encouraged. I want to thank at least a dozen of you for contacting me via PM or text. Your words have been incredibly helpful. 💜💜💜 Purple hearts.... in memory of Qball. Intermittent Fasting is an INCREDIBLY MISUNDERSTOOD subject. I recall when @Pullstart ran a thread that several of you/us brought it up as a very bad idea. This is in fact - The exact opposite of reality for MOST of us. I HIGHLY encourage you. Please. Do some research on the subject as a whole. For most humans it's a true game changer for positive health. The sequence of metabolic changes we experience while not taking in calories is arguably THE most helpful thing one can do to rebuild and recharge our systems. Again... for most. Not every person is capable (medical reasons). A#1. Define "Fast". It isn't "starve". The WAY we lose fat while fasting is very different from the accepted standards of simply cutting calories. For me, like many people, calorie reduction wasn't working well at all. Likely that's related to glucose and insulin levels and processes in my own system. Today's morning weigh in: 272.6 - 261.1 = 11.5 lbs removed. This is a full 4 weeks down. Yesterday (Friday) was a gym day so I added a Kind protein bar around 1 PM. At that point I'd been fasting for 19 hours. When we got home I had a half a protein shake for about 15, 17 grams of whey protein. Supper was a stir fry of mushrooms, zucchini and yellow squash in olive oil. Protein was cheese, chicken breast and a glass of milk. This past week I've done at least four days at 16 - 18 hours fasting. One a 24, a 23, and a 19. I'm seriously considering a couple "Extended fasts". That term describes a fast longer than 24 hours. There are incredibly helpful benefits of a fast at different levels/ hours past 24.. up to around 72 hours (or longer) depending on your current health status and end goals. Surprising (or not really) things I've found... It's a long known issue that our RDA & ACTUAL nutritional needs do not line up. The food labels we read are based on "a 2000 calorie diet". Of WHO?? An average.... OK. That's fine. But the masses tend to read into standards a little too literally... them ignore them anyway. Hence we have the Obesity Epidemic. Yes I capitalized that on purpose. The increasingly rotund size of our population is THE largest cause of health issues and medical costs. The 2000 calorie standards don't take into account male or female, race, activity level, what kind of activity etc... Even at that the numbers are just wrong. Vitamin D for example. Research that for yourself... The Food Pyramid... IMHO is at best, an inaccurate misleading waste of time. There are many versions. A lot of the pyramids should be flipped upside down THEN followed. I have yet to see one that reflects a good easy to understand account of a human intake. We are variable. I've learned in my reading that the Pyramid was actually NOT originally a recommendation FOR nutrition. It was a recommendation of foods to keep us alive during food SHORTAGES. WWHHAAAATTT???? Protein recommendations and requirements are another somewhat misunderstood subject. Unfortunately we have way too many incorrect/misleading personalities online and on TV trying to make a fortune by telling people stretched truths and outright falsehoods that we WANT to believe rather than the actual reality. Some of these are a simple matter of flexibility in requirements. Some are people who are preaching their own beliefs and/ or experiences with little to no regard for others. Do your OWN research. Please. My conclusions for MY needs: My protein needs will vary a lot between fasting periods and exercise periods. When I say exercise periods I mean whatever day(s) I'm moving more than average vs not. Fasting periods. 100 grams per day. Exercising/ gym periods. 200 +/- grams per day. I'll keep the weight loss phase going as long as I can. I'm pretty well wrapped into the daily routine...... for now. It's a struggle sometimes. My goal is 1.5 lbs lost per week. I'm setting at over 2 lbs per week loss.

Pic from West Leyden N.Y.!

I’d start by soaking the trunnion and the threaded rod so you can adjust it. If you have a torch to heat it, even better.

@Ed Kennell 10% off coupon this weekend at HF... I was there earlier today and saw big stacks of their red buckets... Cuz... Your gonna need a bigger bucket...

The Junky got another FIX today. And the addiction grows. New Gravely split wheels and solid tires Electric PTO clutch Solenoids and voltage regs. Tecumseh, Clinton parts Wheel bearings and bushings

There has been a hole in my heart and life since my beloved pooch Bryant died suddenly last Sept. My wife talked me into adopting another dog to keep our coonhound Bella company. So last week we went to the shelter and met a dog with the same pink nose that Bryant had. Faith is about a year old and has a lot to learn but she's off to a good start already.

7.5" and 8.5 " Back set was 1-3/8" most other companies (JD) had 2-3/8 back set.

Only one left east of the Mississippi...

Double check 1-0380 1974 C Series Garden Tractor C-160 8-Speed Kohler K341S-71113A 16 Wheel Horse 5091

I see a lot of guys fall into that mistake. Something broke, they replace it with something custom, and say "Well that won't break again". Then they are twice as mad when the piece it protected breaks the next time.

This is Cleat's wife, Krista, and I am the BIGGEST fan of All Creatures Great & Small. Both the original and the new version. When I was in England 27 years ago, I didn't make it to Yorkshire, but if I had, I never would have left!! Your pictures are absolutely breathtaking, and if I can ever convince Cleat to take me there, we will be coming to visit you and he will be dragged around to see anything and everything related to the show!!

That’s awesome!

Thanks for the tread. I have to do this week on the 856 this week.

Nicely done there mister.

Same here!

A little more progress.

Do they need to line up ? Like would welding a rod coupler to the side of the solid rod and thread the other one into it? Or weld the coupler straight on the end?

You southern folk!!

Bring it on! Great here in Indiana too! ut I had a good sunset onTuesday leaving Florida! B

A rich mixture is easier to fire than a lean one. Weak spark will need more fuel to fire.

This just in... ! First time in RS history - an @ebinmaine thread has gone off topic!!!!

Actually it Makes a great range finder. An absolute necessity for accurate archery shooting. Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines.[1][2] Due to foreshortening, nearby objects show a larger parallax than farther objects, so parallax can be used to determine distances. Sorry for the Eric, but Kevin started it with his eyecrometer and Jim keeps encouraging me.

I use mine quite often. When I had my cataracts removed, I paid the extra 3K to have the new lens with the 0.001" hash marks installed. Calibrated eyeballs are the bomb.

That list in general would be a very cool thing to see. Separating the fastener list, even better!

I've had several discussions over the last couple years in particular about a list of bolts needed to completely disassemble and reassemble 1977 or older tractors. @Maz91 @Rob J. and some others have questioned me and Trina about making one up. So let's get to it. Let's come up with a list, or several, that covers a given year range? Or model? If a couple models were pretty close then we could default in a direction it covers both. I've also been tossing around the idea of marketing these to the Supporters of Redsquare. As a few of you know I buy my Fasteners in bulk so they're cheaper to me than onesie twosies. I'd pass the savings along of course. I would probably resell a quantity available with locking or non locking nuts. That means I would have to account for the extra length in the bolts. Questions. Suggestions. Comments? What say you?

I'm now approaching 26 hours fasting. I have absolutely ZERO desire for food. I'll stay in a fast until tomorrow morning and see when/if I get hungry.

Today's plan: My last food was 6 PM yesterday. 16 hours was 10 AM. Between 17 and 20 is the part when one feels crappy because of the chemical changeover. 2 to 3 PM I should start feeling better. If I feel OK around 4, I'll continue to fast until I feel crappy again or tomorrow.. or more.

Thanks, Pete. Good information.

Another thing I found is the angle of the pull. The lever or disc is going to move in a semi circle. If you have the angle of the cable at one extreme or the other it will fight the assembly moving smooth. You want the angle of the cable pull to be some where in the middle that the cable hole arc will travel

Thanks Don. I need a 35308 exhaust valve, 35309 intake two 36306A head gaskets. I'm fixing an old Tecumseh OHSK120 snowblower engine. Thanks .

They didn't play well with wallpaper either. Growing up on the farm in central New York we needed to warm up coming in from the fringed winter weather. The furnace was directly under the kitchen so we would stand over that register. My brother and I both got new Levi's for Christmas one year and within a few weeks there were little rivet tracks in the wall paper over the kitchen register. Those were the last Levi's jeans I had until I was out on my own.

Lucky there's 5 nozzles cause the small round ones clog pretty quick.

Side humor. Our Puchasing Guy was infamous for his cheapness. He went to the local Home Center to purchase about 400 pavers for the driveway at his new house. He inquired if there was a price break for buying a large quantity. The salesman told him that the more you buy, the cheaper the piece price. The first guy replied "OK, load them on until they are free. I'll return the ones left over !!"